feeling

1. p. pr. & vb. n. of Feel Source: opted

2. a. Possessing great sensibility; easily affected or moved; as, a feeling heart. Source: opted

3. a. Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility; as, he made a feeling representation of his wrongs. Source: opted

4. n. The sense by which the mind, through certain nerves of the body, perceives external objects, or certain states of the body itself; that one of the five senses which resides in the general nerves of sensation distributed over the body, especially in its surface; the sense of touch; nervous sensibility to external objects. Source: opted

5. n. An act or state of perception by the sense above described; an act of apprehending any object whatever; an act or state of apprehending the state of the soul itself; consciousness. Source: opted

6. n. The capacity of the soul for emotional states; a high degree of susceptibility to emotions or states of the sensibility not dependent on the body; as, a man of feeling; a man destitute of feeling. Source: opted

7. n. Any state or condition of emotion; the exercise of the capacity for emotion; any mental state whatever; as, a right or a wrong feeling in the heart; our angry or kindly feelings; a feeling of pride or of humility. Source: opted

8. n. That quality of a work of art which embodies the mental emotion of the artist, and is calculated to affect similarly the spectator. Source: opted

9. n. the experiencing of affective and emotional states Source: wordnet

10. n. a vague idea in which some confidence is placed Source: wordnet

11. n. the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people Source: wordnet

12. n. a physical sensation that you experience Source: wordnet

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